The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-12-16

Ter Ok DIDO. ~ grant thAE may
wash her wounds with watex; and Ms
any last breathe may linger Ebove,
that ] may catch it with my month.
Among the early Christians IL was a
sign of fallnunhinAN GAAeAa al k=AAh=
with q holy kiss, wrirea ST. Pani Ia
the Thessalonians, and to the Ro-
mans, Salute one another with a
holy kiss"
Many Of the practices in vogue
among lovers at the present day, IT'D
regard to kissing may be2srSaed back
ito distant ages. The5critusS makes
one Of his herSines say: 81 wipe my
mouth and spit out your kisses.' In
another place he makes q rustic ex-
claim, ~ love not Aicippe. for but
lately she did not kiss roe, having
caught me by the ears This mode
Of ~salutation SHsdas calls thepot kiss,
abiding TO the double handle Of apot.
It was aiterward called the Fioren-
tine, and was Usually bestowed as q
HI1EN o. unusual t~enderness. The
following is from n Of Horace's
odes:
while now her bending neck she plies,
backward to meet the burning kiss;
Then with an easy cruelty denies,
And wishesyon would snatch, not ask the
bliss.A'
Shakespeare has given the world
some remarkable kisses. In the Tam.
ing Of the Shrew Petruchio takes the
bride about the neck and kisses her
lips
with sach q clanoroas smack,
That at the parting, all the church did
In Richard the Third we are pre-
sented with the following:
.'Theirlips werefour red rogesion a stalk,
And, in their summer beauty, kissed each
other
Anthony ana Cleopatra "kiss away
kingdoms and provinces"
In the Winters gale we have "Kiss-
ing with the inside lip" and in Gym
beline~ reference is made to the aver
sion which fathers have to see their
daughters kissed ~ an unfavored
sutton.
eeEre / could
Give him that parting kiss, which ] had
Betwixt two charming words, comes in
my father,
And, like the .tyrannous breathing Of the ,
North,
Shakes all our buds from growing
As to whether it be wrong to kiss
we refer the reader to Burns:
Some say that kissing's a sin;
But / think it's none ava,
For kissing has wonn'd in this world
Since ever there was twa.
oh il IL wasna lawful
Lawyers wadaa allow it;
II it wasna holy
Ministers Madna doits
lit wagna modest
Matdens wadna take it;
lit wAsna plenty
Poor folks wadna get IT,
In the days OF our fathers it was the
privilege of the driver to kiss his fair
companion every time they passed a
toll gate, or crossed q bridge. Some
times they claimed it whether they
did so or not, as we learn from w. W.
Story, who tells of a sleigh ride he
took "many 3 year ago
eve talk and then are silent;
And sudtsniy~-yOu Know Why
/ stooped-could I help it2 You lifted
your face
We kissed; there was nobody nigh
And he goes on to rejoice because,
among other things, they heard 'tno
paternal CURSE
In the days Of Sir Walter Scott, as
we learn from his Fair Maid of Perth,
1.-THE maiden who vsntured to kiss &
sleeping man won of him q pair Of
gloves"
OF the many kissing games we play
ed as children we need make ne naen-
tion, nor OF the many times our lips
met with those Of each nav lore
What need we care that they are all
welded now, while we are lett to plod
along the road of life solitary and
alone. 1t is the old, old story Of
Schon Rohrtraut and her page:
The she we're crowned her suitor'squeen
Upon tho coming morn, what need I care;
For do not all the forests leaflets wot
That j have kissed Echon Rob rtrant's
beanteous mouth9a
Who has not? Yon grim old man,
whom lies hard hasnmering
has hardened into g. wretch,
is to the world q greedy skinfint with
q single thought. and yet who knows
but ia his desert heart there is All
oasis sof love and tenderness; and
often when we fancy him thinking
about his money he Is il reality
dreaming happily OF when, in years
gone by, beneath the thickening
gloom Of some leafy forest, he kissed
his own dear Rohrtraut,s mouth.
We cannot more happily conclude
our paper than by quoting the an
swer Of the celebrated painter, Benz !.
jamin West, who, when asked WhaA-
ii was that urged him on his ascent
up the steep Hill of fame, replied, "a
kiss from my mother made me g.
painter" FREDERIcK j. HAHN.
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"A Southern Spartan Mother.
From the New Orleans P~icaynne.